Introduction to the Dunlap/Delap Papers
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This is a document summarising some of the most interesting and significant content within the Dunlap/Delap archive (T1336) held in PRONI.
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The Dunlap/Delap papers include 26 documents on the Dunlap and Rutherford families of Strabane, Co. Tyrone, including title deeds to Dunlap family property in Strabane, 1747 to 1803, the will of John Dunlap of Strabane, 1780; emigrant letters from John Dunlap and others, Philadelphia, USA, to the Rutherford family, Strabane, 1785 to 1823, memorandum, written c.1800, describing the career of John Dunlap, printer of the Declaration of Independence, who emigrated from Strabane to Philadelphia; and 19 legal papers, leases on the Delap (note the different spelling) family of Ramelton and Ray, Co. Donegal, 1786 to 1830.